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She works at home now. We researched the local private highschools. Even the best were incredibly vulgar. The local christian schools are good in the lower grades but the highschools are not at all competitive. The local state universtiy has courses and welomes homeschoolers but I am not sure that I am ready to let a 13 year old face all that leftist victim malarky.

Marietta/Acwoth/Kennesaw/Dallas GA (south of Lake Allatoona, in the counties to the NW of Atlanta in the foothills of the mountains.

Weather's coolest in the south, we've elected Bob Barr (Cobb & Paulding Cty), John Linder (now Paulding Cty), Newt Gingrich (Cobb Cty), and a host of other conservatives to both the national and state offices. (If you prefer home security, Kennesaw has the (optional) household firearms requirement - if that's any indication of how conservative an area this is. Little crime in either Cobb or Paulding Counties... slightly more in downtown Marietta.)

Schools? Cobb County had two bands place in antionals at the latest National HS Band competition, and numerous (regular academic awards - though GA overall ranks low in schools admittedly, these blow away everybody else in the state except Gwinnett Cty on the NE of Atlanta.

AP and Honors courses available starting in MS and going through HS: my daughter transferred to one of the (several)local colleges after her 2nd year in HS and graduated early with both college and HS credits - so she'll be able to graduate college 5-1/2 years after starting HS. That dual-enrollment HS-college prgram is free, by the way, but you have to pay for the college-level books and then get re-imbursed.

plenty of work available without going into Atlanta if want to avoid the commute - and traffic IS a problem. Well, can be a problem if you don't plan for.